Chicken Thighs with Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce

Chicken Thighs with Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce – this is one of the best chicken thigh recipes I ever made. Easy, delicious, and perfect for bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs! This is KETO friendly, high-fat, low-carb, gluten free chicken recipe.

Chicken thighs are baked to perfection and then complemented with flavorful creamy mushroom and bacon sauce with lots of fresh thyme. Pure comfort food – chicken dark meat is always delicious in a creamy sauce!

Chicken Thighs with Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Sauce

Ingredients

Chicken thighs

4 chicken thighs , skin-on, bone-in

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

salt and pepper

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning dried thyme, oregano

Mushroom sauce

6 oz white mushrooms

5 slices bacon cooked, chopped

1 cup heavy cream

1/8 teaspoon salt

5 sprigs fresh thyme

Takes 40 min,
serves 4.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Season both sides of chicken thighs generously with salt and pepper
and Italian herb seasoning mix (usually a combination of dried thyme,
oregano and other herbs). Heat vegetable oil on medium-high heat in a
large skillet. Add chicken thighs skin-side down. Cook for about 5
minutes, on the skin side until nicely browned.

Transfer chicken thighs, skin side up, to the foil-lined baking
sheet and bake at 350 F for about 20 minutes or until chicken thighs are
completely cooked through and no longer pink in the center.

In the mean time, make the mushrooms sauce:

Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add sliced
mushrooms (without salting - to ensure the mushrooms get caramelized)
and cook on medium heat for about 3 minutes flipping once.

Add chopped cooked bacon to the skillet.

Add heavy creamy, 1/8 teaspoon salt and snipped fresh thyme, bring
to boil, stir, immediately reduce to simmer and simmer for about 2
minutes on very low heat for flavors to blend and sauce to reduce a bit.
Taste and add more salt if needed.

When chicken is done baking and chicken thighs are completely cooked
through, add cooked chicken thighs to the skillet and spoon the sauce
and the mushrooms on top of chicken thighs.